SCR 5-ALASKA READS DAY                                                                                 
8:05:04 AM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR HUGHES announced that the  first order of business would be                                                               
SCR 5.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
8:05:10 AM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR HUGHES opened public testimony.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
8:05:18 AM                                                                                                                    
POSEY BOGGS,  Member, Alaska Reading Coalition,  testified on SCR                                                               
5. She spoke  of the ways early reading skills  help students and                                                               
how  parents can  promote early  literacy goals.  She noted  they                                                               
need support  of extra  information to reduce  the number  of the                                                               
state's  fourth graders  who are  not  reading proficiently.  She                                                               
stated the importance  of best practices to harness  resolve as a                                                               
state to.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
8:08:10 AM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR HUGHES asked why March 2 was chosen.                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
MS. BOGGS did not know.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR HUGHES wished it were in  the fall so legislators were home                                                               
and could go into schools to promote it.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR COGHILL said March 2 is Dr. Seuss's birthday.                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
8:08:49 AM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR HUGHES closed public testimony.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
8:08:58 AM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR  COGHILL  moved  to  report SCR  5  from  committee  with                                                               
individual recommendations  and attached zero fiscal  note. There                                                               
being no objection, the motion carried.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
8:09:22 AM                                                                                                                    
At ease